Nana Ama Nketia-Quaidoo

Community Development Director

Meet Nana Ama Nketia-Quaidoo, our passionate Community Development Director! With a heart for positive change, she’s led community projects with USAID, empowered mining-affected communities, and even rocked the airwaves as a Broadcast Journalist. Nana Ama, a former teacher, holds an MBA in Human Resource Management and a Bachelor’s in Ghanaian Languages. Her dedication to making a difference shines through at ACA!

Lalla Moulati Toure

Legal Director

Lalla is a Malian jurist with over a decade of experience leading legal advocacy struggles for human rights in her home country.  Prior to joining ACA, she worked for the Association malien des Droits de l’Homme, International Federation for Human rights, and the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative.  She founded a legal clinic in Gao to assist enslaved Malians, supported farming communities that were in danger of losing their land, and assisted workers in unfair dismissal cases.  Lalla has been involved with many cases before the Malian courts, as well as the African Commission and African Court of Human and People’s Rights.  She holds a Masters Degree in human rights from the University of Nantes as well as a legal degree from the University of Mali.

Francis Manu

Field Officer

Meet Francis , a true son of Donkro Nkwanta nestled within the vibrant Bono East Region of Ghana. A man of multifaceted talents, he seamlessly balances his roles as a sports enthusiast and a dedicated businessman. However, his heart beats loudest for community development, as evidenced by his unwavering commitment to fostering positive change. Aside from his commitment to community betterment, Francis finds solace and joy on the football field.

Emyloia kpadonou

Comunication Officer

Emyloia Kpadonou, our dedicated Communication Officer, combines her digital communication background with a passion for social justice to drive positive change at ACA. She leads strategic communication efforts, excels in crafting compelling narratives, and leverages innovative strategies to amplify the organization’s mission. Emyloia’s unique contributions, including her commitment to empowering marginalized communities, make her an invaluable asset. Beyond work, she explores her creativity through photography and writing, loves traveling, and collects postcards from around the world to foster cultural connections.

Jonathan Komla Agbenyega

M&E Officer

Jonathan is a bilingual and results-driven M&E Officer with 17+ years of experience in designing and managing M&E systems in humanitarian and development settings. He excels in data analysis, driving program improvement. Jonathan’s passion for creating positive impacts extends to ACA’s work in Ghana and abroad. His key responsibilities include data collection, quality assurance, and logical framework development. Beyond work, he finds joy in supporting others to achieve their goals and in his spiritual journey.

Fummey Geoffrey

Community Trainer

Fummey Geoffrey is a teacher by profession with a background in Economics and Sociology from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. He also holds a Master’s degree in Theology from Trinity Theological seminary, Legon- Ghana Currently he is a community trainer supervising 7 communities in the Atiwa West District. He is a passionate Community Development Worker, with vast experience in rural and peri- urban communities. 

Bommie Adamu

Community Trainer

Meet Bommie Adamu, one of our dedicated community trainers at ACA. Before joining us, Bommie was a teacher, bringing a wealth of experience in education to our team. Outside of work, Bommie has a passion for sports and loves to stay active, always finding ways to keep busy. His dynamic energy and commitment to community development make him an invaluable asset to our mission.

Nnimmo Bassey (President) is a Nigerian architect, environmentalist activist, author and poet, who chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 through 2012 and was Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades. He was one of Time magazine’s Heroes of the Environment in 2009. In 2010, Nnimmo Bassey was named co-winner of the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2012 he was awarded the Rafto Prize. He serves on the Advisory Board and is Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, an environmental think tank and advocacy organization.

Ian Gary is the executive director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition and is a senior policy, research and advocacy professional with over 25 years of experience in fiscal transparency and accountability, international development, and the reform of natural resource governance.  Prior to joining The FACT Coalition as executive director, Ian directed Oxfam America’s policy and advocacy work focused on promoting transparent and accountable financial flows – for example from oil and mining revenues, taxes and aid – to fight poverty.  Based in Washington, DC, Ian led a team of policy managers, advisors and researchers. Prior to joining Oxfam in 2005, Ian was Strategic Issues Advisor for Africa and Strategic Issues Advisor for Extractive Industries at Catholic Relief Services (CRS) from 1999 to 2005. He has held positions with the Ford Foundation as well as international development organizations in the U.S. and Africa.

Michelle Harrison (Vice President) is a Staff Attorney at EarthRights International. She graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2012 where she received the Robert F. Kennedy ‘51 Public Service Fellowship to work with ERI for a year. She then remained at ERI as a Bertha Foundation Fellow. While at UVA, worked in Tanzania for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and with the Innocence Project, providing post-conviction representation. Michelle holds a B.A. in Political Science and Environmental Science and a minor in French from Miami University. At ERI, Michelle has defended the First Amendment rights of activists against abusive discovery from Chevron, helped defend the Dodd-Frank extractive industry disclosure rules on behalf of Oxfam America, and worked on ERI’s U.S. litigation against Chiquita for human rights abuses and Union Carbide (Dow Chemical) for environmental abuses. She is admitted to practice law in Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Marco Simons is Americas Regional Program Director and General Counsel at EarthRights International. He oversees ERI’s use of legal strategies to work with communities around the world in protecting their human rights and their environment. With ERI, Marco has served as counsel on transnational corporate accountability cases including Doe v. Unocal, Wiwa v. Shell, Bowoto v. Chevron, and MaynasCarijano v. Occidental Petroleum, and submitted amicus briefs in numerous other cases. He has written or coauthored several articles and publications on corporate accountability for earth rights abuses as well as taught college and law school courses on human rights. Marco previously worked for ERI on the Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights after graduating from Yale Law School. Prior to returning to ERI, he clerked for the Honorable Dorothy Wright Nelson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked for the civil rights law firm Hadsell & Stormer, which was co-counsel on Doe v. Unocal and Bowoto v. Chevron. Marco holds an undergraduate degree in environmental science and, prior to law school, worked on developing educational materials on conservation biology. He is currently admitted to practice in California, Washington, D.C., and Washington State, as well as in the U.S. Supreme Court and several other federal courts.

Dr. Priscilla M Achakpa is the founder/Global Lead of the Women Environmental Programme (WEP) a regional Women-focused organization with headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. She is a gender expert, a negotiator at the UNFCCC on gender, a development practitioner and a national and international consultant with over 26 years of experience. Dr. Priscilla has held many positions at the National and International levels working with a wide range of development actors, government, UN, CSOs, and feminist networks in the area of gender, WASH, environment, and climate change with a strong passion in helping women and the most vulnerable and disadvantaged group in society. She is an author and co-author of several publications, a recipient of several awards including the Albert Ballin Awards, Ashoka Fellows, ECO Ambassador, Channels TV Nigeria, and Deutsche Welle, a public broadcasting institution formed under the German Government and Climate Change Warriors –Vogue Magazine, USA December 2015.

Ifeoma Malo is an energy access expert and a climate action champion,. She has over 23 years’ experience, building and directing organisational operations and strategy, supporting start-ups and MSMEs across Africa. In the past 10years she has become a recognized and credible leader in the energy and utility markets, working on the intersection of Energy Transtion, Energy markets, Energy and Climate Financing and Climate Adaptation markets. She is experienced in political economy, energy policy and energy markets, developmental economy, climate and environment, sustainability, dispute resolution, process facilitation and organisational development.